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€ 49,50 isbn 978 90 5867 708 2 04/2009 16 x 24 cm Paperback 300 p. 7 illustrations nur 635 Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 24 English, Latin
Spanish Humanism on the Verge of the Picaresque
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Juan Maldonado’s Ludus Chartarum, Pastor Bonus and Bacchanalia Edited with introduction, translation, and notes by Warren S. Smith & Clark Colahan
The 16th-century humanist Juan Maldonado in his Latin essays foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. Like Erasmus, with whom he corresponded, Maldonado advocated the use of Latin in a wide-range of activities. Maldonado’s Pastor Bonus, a lengthy open letter to a bishop, reviews in a vivid and satirical style the abuses of the churchmen in his diocese. His Ludus chartarum is framed as a colloquium similar to Vives’ on the subject, entertaining while teaching a Latin terminology for card playing. His Bacchanalia, written for student actors, is a spirited play pitting the forces of Lent against those of Bacchus, as in the Libro de buen amor. These works have been edited and translated into English by Warren Smith and Clark Colahan for the first time, with illustrations of scenes from each work, and of 16th-century cards, by Richard Simmons and Caleb Smith.
warren s. smith is Professor of Classical Languages at the University of New Mexico, usa. clark colahan is Anderson Professor of Humanities and Professor of Spanish at Whitman College, usa.
Also published in the series Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia • “Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?”. Dedicating Latin Works and Motets in the Sixteenth Century.
Ignace Bossuyt, Nele Gabriëls, Dirk Sacré & Demmy Verbeke (eds), €50,00, isbn 978 90 5867 669 6, 2008, English, French • Iosephus Tusiani Neo-Eboracensis. In Nobis Caelum, Carmina Latina.
Raccolta, edizione e traduzione in lingua italiana con aggiunta di Prefazione e di Indici di Emilio Bandiera, €39,50, isbn 978 90 5867 599 6, 2007, English, Latin
“Lors est ce jour grant joie nee”
Essais de langue et de littérature françaises du moyen âge Michèle Goyens & Werner Verbeke (eds)
Ce volume regroupe huit contributions consacrées à la langue et la littérature françaises du moyen âge. Elles sont le reflet d’une journée d’étude organisée en l’honneur du professeur émérite Willy Van Hoecke, dont la passion pour la linguistique diachronique et la littérature médiévale françaises lui a fait développer des techniques d’édition critique à partir des oeuvres de Baudouin de Condé, technique qu’il appliquera aussi à l’édition de la Rectorique de Marc Tulles Cyceron, une traduction de deux traités de rhétorique latins réalisée par Jean d’Antioche à la fin du 13e siècle. Il mettra aussi au point une méthode pour l’étude empirique de l’évolution de la langue par le biais de traductions. Les études rassemblées en son honneur portent sur divers sujets: la phraséologie historique, des auteurs médiévaux, certaines figures littéraires, des destinataires de la littérature médiévale, des types particuliers de textes littéraires, et certains liens entre la littérature en moyen néerlandais et celle de l’ancien français.
This volume gathers eight contributions regarding the French medieval language and literature.They are a selection of papers presented during a colloquium organized in honor of Prof.Emeritus Willy Van Hoecke, whose passion for French diachronic linguistics and medieval literature has driven him to develop some techniques for critical text edition, applied to the oeuvre of Baudouin de Condé,techniques which he also used for the edition of Jean d’Antioche’s Rectoriquede Marc Tulles Cyceron.The papers collected here regard a variety of subjects: historical phraseology,medieval authors,some specific literary characters, addressees of medieval literature,certain types of literary texts,and the relationship between Middle Dutch and Old French literature.
michèle goyens is full Professor of French diachronic linguistics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. werner verbeke is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. contributors Herman Braet, Claude Buridant, Brigitte L. Callay, Geert H.M. Claassens, Yasmina Foehr-Janssens, Dulce Maria Gonzalez Doreste, Cinzia Pignatelli, Remco Sleiderink, Colette Van Coolput-Storms. €39,50 isbn 978 90 5867 740 2 05/2009 16 x 24 cm Paperback ca.170 p. nur 633 Illustrated Mediaevalia Lovaniensia- volume 41 French, English
Fluid Flesh
The Body, Religion and the Visual Arts Barbara Baert (ed.)
How do we relate the body we have and the bodies we see to the mind, or to the soul? Fluid Flesh addresses the relationship between the body, religion, and the visual arts, which is one of both love and tension. Are we able (and allowed) to think of the divine in a corporeal way? Isn’t artistic expression, which originated from both the human mind and body, intrinsically a bodily matter? Featuring an introduction from James Elkins, Fluid Flesh covers an array of topics including the visual as a spiritual medium today; iconophilia and iconoclasm in the past and present; the human body, religion and contemporary lifestyles; and premodern and postmodern perspectives on anatomy and the visual arts. Several authors address the presentation of the human form in Christian art and ask whether the body may be present in religious art even without figuration. The authors highlight the intertwined and powerful roles of both the image and the body within a contemporary culture that has seemingly devalued language (in favor of the image) and has renewed a ‘sinful’ conception of the body as in constant need of improvement.
barbara baert is Professor in Medieval Art and Iconology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She is the founder of the Iconology Research Group, Leuven-Utrecht (www.iconologyresearchgroup.org). contributors Regina Ammicht-Quinn, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Barbara Baert, Ralph Dekoninck, Jan De Maeyer, Renaat Devisch, James Elkins, Jan Koenot, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Catrien Santing, Hilde Van Gelder.
Other publications in the Lieven Gevaert Series: • Paranoid Obstructions
Els Vanden Meersch, €25,00, isbn 978 90 5867 437 1, 2004, English • Constantin Meunier. A Dialogue with Allan Sekula
H. Van Gelder (ed), €21,00, isbn 978 90 5867 488 3, 2005, English • In the Name of Mozart. Photographs by Malou Swinnen
H. Van Gelder (ed.), €15,50, isbn 978 90 5867 569 9, 2006, English • Critical Realism in Contemporary Art. Around Allan Sekula’s Photography
J. Baetens, H. Van Gelder (eds), isbn 978 90 5867 563 7, 2006, English (out of print) • Collective Inventions. Surrealism in Belgium
P. Allmer, H. Van Gelder (eds), €24,50, isbn 978 90 5867 592 7, 2007, English • Philosophy of Photography
H. Van Lier, €27,50, isbn 978 90 5867 598 9, 2007, English • Photography between Poetry and Politics. The Critical Position of the Photographic
Medium in Contemporary Art
H. Van Gelder, H. Westgeest (eds), €34,50, isbn 978 90 5867 664 1, 2008, English €34,50 isbn 978 90 5867 716 7 03/2009 17 x 23 cm Paperback 144 p. nur 649 20 illustrations Lieven Gevaert Series 8 English
An Interpretation with Commentary Geert Roskam
€49,50 isbn 978 90 5867 736 5 04/2009 16 x 24 cm Hardcover
ca. 250 p. nur 635–732 English The question of the political relevance of philosophy, and of the role which the philosopher should play in the government of his state, was often discussed in Antiquity. Plato’s ideal of the philosopher-king is well-known, but was precisely his failure to realise his political ideal in Syracuse not the best argument against the philosopher’s political engagement? Nevertheless, Plato’s ideal remained attractive for later Greek thinkers. This is illustrated, for instance, by one of Plutarch’s short political works, in which he tries to demonstrate that the philosopher should especially associate with powerful rulers, because he can in this way exert the greatest positive influence on his society and at the same time maximise his personal pleasure. This study provides a thorough analysis of Plutarch’s Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum. A lengthy general introduction deals with the author and the text and discusses each step in Plutarch’s argumentation in detail. A systematic lemmatic commentary then provides a systematic complement to the previous analysis of the work, dealing with many problems of textual criticism, explaining all kinds of realia, and discussing a great number of passages through parallels from Plutarch’s own œuvre and from other authors.
geert roskam is Research Professor at the Faculty of Arts (Greek Studies) of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
• A Commentary on Plutarch’s, De latenter vivendo
Geert Roskam €34,50, isbn 978 90 5867 603 0, 2007, English
Collected Studies on Francisco Suarez SJ (1548–1617)
By John P. Doyle M.W.F. Stone (ed.)
Of all the major philosophers from the late medieval and early modern periods, the work of the Jesuit Francisco Suarez (1548–1617) has been largely ignored by English-speaking scholars. A notable exception to this trend is the work of the American scholar John P. Doyle, whose ground-breaking studies of several important areas of Suarez’s imposing yet highly original system of scholasticism have helped to make the Jesuit’s ideas tractable and accessible to successive generations of historians of philosophy. The fruit of over forty years of labour, this volume collects together Doyle’s most important articles on the philosophical theology metaphysics, ethics, and legal philosophy of Suarez, and is prefaced by an introductory chapter that places the Jesuit’s life and thought in context. The volume is a fitting and timely tribute to a scholar whose selfless and sympathetic concern with the ideas and Suarez have served the cause of Suarezian scholarship with great distinction.
john p. doyle is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Saint Louis University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in Shrewsbury, Missouri, usa. m.w.f. stone is Professor of Renaissance Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. €69,50 isbn 978 90 5867 737 2 05/2009 16 x 24 cm Hardcover
ca. 250 p. nur 732 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy- series 1–37 English
Jacques Maritain and Father Lamy in the streets of Le Pailly, Haute-Marne, France, 1924.
The Maritain Factor
Taking Religion into Interwar Modernism Rajesh Heynickx & Jan De Maeyer (eds)
By studying the reception and perception of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, this book argues that European modernist artists and intellectuals sought a primordial finality in Catholicism. The French poet, writer, and surrealist filmmaker Jean Cocteau converted under the influence of Maritain. For the painters Gino Severini, a pioneer of Futurism,and Otto Van Rees, one of the first Dadaists—both converts— Maritain played the role of spiritual counselor. And when the promoter of abstract art Michel Seuphor embraced Catholic faith in the 1930s, he, too, had extensive contact with Maritain. For all of them, the dictum of the Irish poet Brian Coffey, once a doctoral student under Maritain, applied: modern art needs a Thomist conceptual framework. However, the contributions in The Maritain Factor also show that, besides admiration, Maritain provoked irritation with his theories. Walter Benjamin for example, could only look at Maritain as a charlatan who was out to place modern art under the glass bell jar of Catholicism. The authors demonstrate that Catholic thought was not just one aspect of the manifold varieties of modernist discourses and practices, but in fact offered a basis to organize and structure this multiplicity in the 1920s and 1930s.
rajesh heynickx teaches Art History at Universiteit Antwerpen and at Sint-Lucas Architectuur Gent-Brussel. jan de maeyer is Director of kadoc (Documentation and Research Center for Religion, Culture and Society), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. contributors Philippe Chenaux, Jan De Maeyer, Michael Einfalt, Jason Harding, Rajesh Heynickx, Zoë Marie Jones, Ewoud Kieft, Mathijs Sanders, Stephen Schloesser, Stéphane Symons, Cécile Vanderpelen-Diagre, James Matthew Wilson.
Also published in the series kadoc Studies on Religion, Culture and Society: • Christian Democratic Parties in Europe since the End of the Cold War
S. Van Hecke, E.Gerard (eds), €30,00, isbn 978 90 5867 377 0, 2004, English • Religious Institutes in Western Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
J. De Maeyer, S. Leplae, J. Schmiedl (eds), €27,00, isbn 978 90 5867 402 9, 2004, English, French • Religion, Children’s Literature and Modernity in Western Europe, 1750–2000
J. De Maeyer, H. H. Ewers, R. Ghesquière, M. Manson, P. Pinsent, P. Quaghebeur (eds) €46,50, isbn 978 90 5867 497 5, 2005, English • The Papacy and the New World Order
V. Viaene (ed.), €39,50, isbn 978 90 5867 518 7, 2005, English, French • Towards an Era of Development. The Globalization of Socialism and Christian Democracy, 1945–1965
P. Van Kemseke, €32,00, isbn 978 90 5867 560 6, 2007, English € 32,50 isbn 978 90 5867 714 3 04/2009 17 x 24 cm Paperback ca. 240 p. nur 694 kadoc Studies on Religion, Culture and Society 7 English
€ 55,00 isbn 978 90 5867 705 1 12/2008 21 x 29,7 cm Paperback 318 p. nur 933–682 Illustrated Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 8 French
Étude anthropologique du squelette du Paléolithique supérieur de Nazlet Khater 2 (Égypte)
Apport à la compréhension de la variabilité passée des hommes modernes Isabelle Crevecoeur
L’étude de l’origine, de la variabilité et du comportement des hommes anatomiquement modernes a fait l’objet de recherches intenses durant deux périodes distinctes de l'évolution humaines: celle des stades isotopiques 6 et 5e avec les plus anciens hommes modernes en Afrique et au Proche-Orient; et celle des stades isotopiques 2 et 1 avec l’expansion des hommes modernes dans toutes les parties du monde. Une des périodes clef pour comprendre l’évolution complexe d’Homo sapiens est celle du stade isotopique 3. Cependant, peu de restes humains complets ont été exhumés pour cette période, ce qui limite la connaissance de la diversité passée des hommes modernes du Pléistocène supérieur. Le spécimens de Nazlet Khater 2 (nk2) représente le plus ancien squelette complet d’homme moderne adulte du Nord de l’Afrique. Il a été découvert en 1980 dans la vallée du Nil (Egypte) lors des fouilles du Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project. L’étude de ce spécimen offre une opportunité unique d’accroître notre connaissance de la variabilité des hommes modernes durant cette époque (ois3).
The study of modern human origin,variation and behaviour focused mainly on two distinct periods: the oxygen isotopic stages OIS6 and 5e with the oldest anatomically modern human remains from Africa and the Middle East and the oxygen isotopic stages 2 and 1 with the expansion of modern humans all over the world.One of the key periods to try to understand the complex evolution of Homo sapiens is the oxygen isotopic stage 3.However, few complete human remains are known for this period which limits the knowledge of the Upper Pleistocene modern human variation.The Nazlet Khater 2 (NK2) human remains represent the oldest OIS3 complete modern human skeleton from Northern Africa.It was discovered in 1980 near Tahta in Upper Egypt by the Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project (BMEPP). The study of this specimen provides an opportunity to increase our understanding of modern human variation during this time period (OIS3).
isabelle crevecoeur is Post-doctoral Research Assistant at the Laboratory of Anthropology and Prehistory of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels.
De nominale constituent
Structuur en geschiedenis Freek Van de Velde
De nominale constituent is een onderbelicht domein van de syntaxis, zeker in de historische taalkunde. Dat is niet terecht, want over de syntactische bouw ervan is men het lang niet eens, en de veranderingen die zich in de loop van de geschiedenis hebben voorgedaan, zijn talrijk. In dit boek wordt geargumenteerd dat achter die diverse veranderingen een grote tendens schuilgaat: de Nederlandse nominale constituentis het resultaat van een eeuwenlang proces van stapsgewijze uitbreiding ter linkerzijde met een aantal duidelijk onderscheiden kavels(‘slots’) in het voorveld.Deze visie laat toe een aantal ogenschijnlijk heel uiteenlopende taalveranderingen samenhangend te verklaren. Het onderzoek strekt zich uit over verschillende eeuwen taalgeschiedenis. De klemtoon ligt uiteraard op het Oud-, Middel- en Nieuwnederlands, maar waar mogelijk wordt nog verder teruggegaan, tot de gereconstrueerde fasen van het Proto-Germaans en het Proto-Indo-Europees. In de argumentatie worden data uit verschillende talen betrokken –onder andere Hittitisch, Sanskriet, Grieks, Latijn, Gotisch, Oudengels, Oudhoogduits–en er wordt gebruik gemaakt van allerhande technieken, van theoretisch onderzoek tot kwantitatief corpusonderzoek. Verder wordt er ook uitvoerig verwezen naar de bestaande internationale vakliteratuur.
€ 49,50 isbn 978 90 5867 732 7 04/2009 16 x 24 cm Paperback ca. 400 p. nur 624 Dutch
freek van de velde is wetenschappelijk medewerker van de onderzoeksgroep
‘Nederlandse Grammatica en Taalgebruik’ van de K.U.Leuven.
Of related interest • Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse syntaxis
J. M. van der Horst, €210,00, isbn 978 90 5867 646 7, 2008, Dutch
